Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs, today we commemorate the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at…
A National Conservative critique of the recent ‘The Road Ahead’ conference in Fremantle
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was…
Australia does not need a policeman for a police state
When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew…
Climate psychology
Climate change is the gift that keeps on giving. We are familiar with the havoc it is supposedly wreaking on…
A diesel in the shed
You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to…
Australia’s e-Safety Karen
If you were to believe Anthony Albanese, Elon Musk is the greatest threat to Australian democracy since Lucifer fell from…
On Passover, Israel, and the scourge of antisemitism
On behalf of the Australia-Israel Allies Caucus, I wish all who celebrate a happy and holy Pesach/Passover. Passover commemorates the…
Laughs, lies, and lights out
Oh, the irony! Here I was reading our local Noosa newspaper last Saturday morning and laughing when the power started…
Australia fails to protect children from gender experiments
The debate over so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for children has reached a crucial moment. This treatment approach, which often involves the…
Only official misinformation allowed
Over the last four years, the Australian ruling classes have demonstrated an insatiable appetite for power and control over our…
Do you wish your country would become normal again?
Would it be nice if universities suddenly became passively progressive again, instead of shamelessly revolutionary? Should national holidays return to…
Broken promises, broken budgets
In December 2021, Anthony Albanese announced his ‘plan’ to reduce electricity prices by $275 per household by 2025. He said…
Punishing Petrovsky
It was Walter Map in his 12th century work ‘On the Trifles of Courtiers’ who created the character Eudo, who…
Albanese abridging too far
We have a serious problem in this country with governments wanting to silence views they don’t like. Let me remind…
Do fact-checkers check the facts?
Government should never have the power to determine what is or is not the truth, let alone silence dissenting views.…
Even Bernie Fraser thinks it’s a dumb idea
I’ve said it before, but Albo really has a way with words. You know the sort of thing: good is…
The Cass review and gender woo
The Cass Review into Britain’s National Health Service’s child-gender care services has recently been published. The review demolishes the entire…
Immigration challenges in the era of Islam
The motion was never going to pass, but the debate was needed in 2017 as much as now. The Sydney…
Community safety or grubby politics?
The highest duty of a government is the safety of its citizens and the current Labor government has betrayed this…
X rated
I am truly surprised. In fact, I am staggered. I thought there was not a single menber of parliament in…
Humza Yousaf and his ridiculous, feigned outrage
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf is a politician with two settings. If he’s being asked about a difficult issue –…
Narendra Modi is unbeatable
Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a…
Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?
There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza.…
Does Labour really love the St George’s Cross?
Following last night’s mammoth parliamentary ping pong session, a funny thing happened early this morning. As various members of HM…
Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration
The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…
Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?
In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…
New Zealand’s imperial judiciary
If you cast your eyes across the Tasman right now, you can see the beginnings of an imperial judiciary, the…
Subversion within New Zealand
Recently querying why New Zealand governments make annual January pilgrimages to the Maori Pa at Ratana, to celebrate the birth…
The barbarity of this man
It’s a spectacle a lot of people would kill to see: Hugo Weaving in a Sydney Theatre Company co-production of…
Shylock and the Nazis: the truth about Shakespeare’s most infamous character
None of William Shakespeare’s characters are more controversial than Shylock. The moneylender from The Merchant of Venice may be the…
The music of their eloquence
It was a tweet by the novelist Joyce Carol Oates that warned us PBS, the American public broadcaster, had done…
Why one-man plays are all the rage
Well, it’s nice to feel on trend. The Today programme this morning carried an item on the popularity of one-man…
To Salman Rushdie, a dream before his attempted murder ‘felt like a premonition’
Salman Rushdie has long hated and struggled against the idea that the 1989 fatwa pronounced on him after the publication…
Murder in the dark: The Eighth House, by Linda Segtnan, reviewed
It takes a Scandinavian mother to write like this: ‘Why murder a nine-year-old girl? She wasn’t raped. Rape is the…
Are we all becoming hermits now?
Long before Covid, wi-fi and Deliveroo, Badger in The Wind in the Willows showed us how to live beyond the…
John Deakin: the perfect anti-hero of the tawdry Soho scene
During the various lockdowns I found myself wondering how Iain Sinclair was coping with the restrictions. It seemed unthinkable that…
A magnificent set of dentures still leaves little to smile about
John Patrick Higgins is unhappy about the state of his mouth. His teeth resemble ‘broken biscuits’, a ‘pub piano’, ‘an…
The Dreyfus Affair continues to haunt France to this day
A short new book on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the proudly patriotic French army officer who was falsely accused in 1894…
They felt they could achieve anything together: two brave women in war-torn Serbia
Lesbian military fiction is a popular genre, featuring titles such as Silver Wings and An Army of One, but Jack…
Being a printer was what Benjamin Franklin prided himself on most
For some readers this book will have the charm of the Antiques Roadshow. Adam Smyth, professor of English Literature and…